Senior Buyer - Artworks & Design - Slough, Berkshire

Senior Buyer – Artworks & Design – Slough, Berkshire, GB, SL1 1DT

We are Reckitt
Home to the world\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
Procurement
Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.
If you\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’re looking for a career in supply chain, there\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.
Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.
About the role
The position requires a highly motivated, well organised, flexible and pro-active Senior Buyer to:
– Lead the procurement of a subsection of a global category under the supervision of the Global Category Lead withing both the Insights & Analytics and Design & Artwork categories.
– Build and accelerate sustainable Procurement strategies for the Category sub-section under scope (across all KPIs including total cost, NWC, quality, service & innovation) through understanding of, and supporting internal stakeholders\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’ needs, professional sourcing approach, building effective relationships and alignment with stakeholders, and increasing spend coverage by Procurement,
– Deliver year on year efficiency savings projects through a mix of strategic initiatives, ideations, mix and demand management, suppliers\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’ initiatives, procurement events.
Your responsibilities

• Consolidate the spend and manage the spend category holistically. Co-author a playbook, where relevant, with business partners internally.
• Work closely with business partners to understand needs, objectives, and priorities to optimise total cost, NWC, quality and service
• Use standard category management tools to organise and structure knowledge, develop objectives and measure against agreed KPIs.
• Design and implement sourcing strategies for identified sub-sections of the Global Category in order to achieve optimal supply base that will general competitive advantage
• Identify, select, develop suppliers for the sub-section of the Category. Negotiate and contract with those identified suppliers.
• Prepare budget assumptions where applicable
• Report in a timely and accurate manner on activities within the subsection of the Category and escalate to the right forum to gain support
• Identify risks and opportunities involved in each sourcing process as well as across the sub-section of the Category.
• Identify, gain support for, and drive quality and service improvement strategies.
• Follow market trends for marketing and scout for insights and innovations
• Keep a sound relationship with suppliers in scope. Motivate suppliers to treat the company as a preferred customer in presenting innovation and/or cost/efficiency projects
• Build appropriate templates and utilise various metrics to provide better insight into the subsection of the Category. Leverages appropriate external sources to strengthen the viewpoint and problem solve situations
• Embed DE&I and sustainability goals into the roadmap for the Category subsection.

The experience we\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’re looking for
Minimum 4 years\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’ work experience
Experienced with leading cross-functional, sourcing projects
Ability to work in a truly global organisation. Proven experience in working in a fast moving and result driven environment which demands to work under pressure
Experience in negotiation techniques with good interpersonal and relationship building skills
Strong ability to understand, analyse and present data to support a proposed recommendation is essential to this role
High degree of fluency of English is required for negotiations and internal communications
Knowledge of other languages is an advantage
Communicates in a very clear and structured way verbally and in writing
The skills for success
Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Supply Management, Procurement, Category Management Expertise.
What we offer
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s pay for performance philosophy.
Equality
We recognise that in real life, great people don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t always \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’tick all the boxes\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’. That\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.
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